Re: Convert _ to + on inbound addresses

2010-01-18 Thread Charles Boling
with SQL, there is no need to use pcre. just do that in the SQL query to avoid having to keep an external file up to date... ...except that the + (and everything between it and the @) is *not* actually part of the email address. To use your address as an example: When Postfix receives an

Re: Convert _ to + on inbound addresses

2010-01-18 Thread /dev/rob0
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:12:00AM -0800, Charles Boling wrote: mouss: with SQL, there is no need to use pcre. just do that in the SQL query to avoid having to keep an external file up to date... ...except that the + (and everything between it and the @) is *not* actually part of the

Re: Convert _ to + on inbound addresses

2010-01-18 Thread mouss
Charles Boling a écrit : with SQL, there is no need to use pcre. just do that in the SQL query to avoid having to keep an external file up to date... ...except that the + (and everything between it and the @) is *not* actually part of the email address. of course the + is part of the email

Re: Convert _ to + on inbound addresses

2010-01-17 Thread mouss
LuKreme a écrit : On 16-Jan-2010, at 12:24, Wietse Venema wrote: To address that issue, I would like to be able to use another character (_ or .) that is commonly accepted as part of email addresses, instead. Address transformation mappings are always queried at recipient validation time, so

Convert _ to + on inbound addresses

2010-01-16 Thread Charles Boling
I've been a postfix user for nearly 10 years, but in many ways I'm still quite the newbie. That's the problem with Postfix being such a solid MTA: I don't mess with it much. :-) For a good chunk of that time, I have wrestled on and off with this problem off and on, playing with it for a bit,

Re: Convert _ to + on inbound addresses

2010-01-16 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Charles Boling junk01+post...@boling.us wrote: I've been a postfix user for nearly 10 years, but in many ways I'm still quite the newbie.  That's the problem with Postfix being such a solid MTA: I don't mess with it much. :-) For a good chunk of that time, I

Re: Convert _ to + on inbound addresses

2010-01-16 Thread Wietse Venema
Charles Boling: I've been a postfix user for nearly 10 years, but in many ways I'm still quite the newbie. That's the problem with Postfix being such a solid MTA: I don't mess with it much. :-) For a good chunk of that time, I have wrestled on and off with this problem off and on, playing

Re: Convert _ to + on inbound addresses

2010-01-16 Thread LuKreme
On 16-Jan-2010, at 12:24, Wietse Venema wrote: To address that issue, I would like to be able to use another character (_ or .) that is commonly accepted as part of email addresses, instead. Address transformation mappings are always queried at recipient validation time, so you can't use a